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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3907 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 895 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Lindsay N. Sabadosa |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act to require separate carbon accounting for working lands and natural lands and to |
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| 13 | 13 | | eliminate from Massachusetts net-zero carbon emissions goal any carbon offsets sold to entities |
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| 14 | 14 | | outside of the Commonwealth. |
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| 15 | 15 | | _______________ |
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| 16 | 16 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 17 | 17 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire1/20/2023Margaret R. Scarsdale1st Middlesex2/10/2023David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf17th Worcester2/23/2023 1 of 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3907 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 895 |
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| 20 | 20 | | By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 895) |
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| 21 | 21 | | of Lindsay N. Sabadosa, Margaret R. Scarsdale and David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf for |
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| 22 | 22 | | legislation to further regulate climate policy and regulate carbon emissions. Environment and |
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| 23 | 23 | | Natural Resources. |
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| 24 | 24 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 27 | 27 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 28 | 28 | | _______________ |
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| 29 | 29 | | An Act to require separate carbon accounting for working lands and natural lands and to |
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| 30 | 30 | | eliminate from Massachusetts net-zero carbon emissions goal any carbon offsets sold to entities |
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| 31 | 31 | | outside of the Commonwealth. |
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| 32 | 32 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 33 | 33 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 34 | 34 | | 1 Chapter 21N, Section 5, Part (xiii) as amended by Chapter 8 of the Acts of 2021 is hereby |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2further amended by adding xiii D and xiii E as follows: |
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| 36 | 36 | | 3 (xiii) (D) contain benchmarks, baseline measurements, measures of carbon flux, roadmap |
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| 37 | 37 | | 4goals and plans for natural and working lands reported separately for each of the following: 1) |
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| 38 | 38 | | 5agricultural lands, 2) forest lands managed for producing wood products, 3) forest lands in parks |
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| 39 | 39 | | 6or reserves and not available for producing wood products, and 4) any other natural or working |
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| 40 | 40 | | 7lands as deemed appropriate by the Secretary; |
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| 41 | 41 | | 8 (xiii) (E) provide a full carbon accounting of all lands in the commonwealth with carbon |
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| 42 | 42 | | 9offset contracts in effect; any lands subject to such offsets that serve the purpose of offsetting |
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| 43 | 43 | | 10carbon emissions outside of Massachusetts shall not be counted toward meeting roadmap goals. |
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